Like a lot of you, I’m a sucker for movies about scrappy underdogs who somehow thrash their way to triumph. “The Bad News Bears,” “The Replacements,” and even “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” are films I can watch over and over.
So imagine how excited I am to tell you about all the scrappy underdog stories happening in Florida right now.
All over the state, local governments are pushing ahead with common-sense changes to their growth plans, wetlands protection, and impact fees. They’re doing so despite warnings from big, bad opponents that their plans will violate a new pro-developer state law that limits city and county governments’ authority on new land-use or development regulations…